Jared Leto’s Description Of Playing The Joker Is Horrifying

Gallery: First full look at Jared Leto’s Joker on Empire cover and his place in Joker history.

Fans of DC Comics and their attending onscreen adaptations can now chime in about the look of Jared Leto’s Joker from next year’s “Suicide Squad” movie. Inside, Jared Leto opens up about playing The Joker in Suicide Squad for the very first time. “I was just thinking that the Joker would probably just say, ‘f*ck you,’ and hang up,” Leto joked as he began his phone interview with Empire. Thanks to Empires cover this month of Suicide Squad, fans will get a more in-depth look of the movie that is till a ways off; including the method Jared Leto approached while taking on the Joker. “I took a pretty deep dive. He looks like a homeless vampire invited to a low-rent fashion show, but it should always be remembered with things like this that the pictures were not shot with the lighting and angles the film’s director wants to portray the character.

But at the same time it was very painful, like giving birth out of my prick hole.” Leto would call his co-star Jim Parrack, who plays Joker henchman Jonny Frost, and order him to do things like spray paint roses black or fill up a backpack with nine inch nails. There’s a power to that character, and by some freaking miracle, through the incredible things Jared has done and the photography and all the other millions of things that went into it, we’ve cooked up something transcendent.